The National Theatre's 25th anniversary staging of Tony Kushner's multi-award-winning drama is one of the theatrical events of 2017. Tickets sold out in a matter of hours so the best opportunity for most audiences to savour director Marianne Elliott's critically acclaimed production is this recording of a live performance on the London stage. New Yorkers grapple with life and death in the mid-1980s as the spectre of the Aids crisis casts a deathly pall over the conservative Reagan administration.